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IBM InterConnect 2017: Day 2

Twitter is using the IBM cloud to fight harassment on the platform with the cognitive understanding of these tweets on Watson.

BlueMix is implementing the usage of Red Hat Linux into the IBM Cloud starting today.

American Airlines is using the IBM Cloud and is aggressively moving applications to the cloud including delivery and reservation systems.

Watson now provides recommendations for how and where to run workloads across the cloud platform.

Indiegogo is providing Watson tools for free with an account to assist in building the next gerenation of IoT devices.

Indiegogo is also partnering with ARROW to help build and manufacture these devices.

Introducing IBM Cloud Object Flex storage.

Allowing data to reside in the cloud or on-premise, but to still be able to utilize Watson and the cloud utilities from IBM Cloud.

PlayFab is using the IBM Cloud to turbocharge games with machine learning and AI. This is helping Atari and developers to harness the data generated by games to best determine what gamers want. Roller Coaster Tycoon Touch uses this.

Delos is using IBM BlueMix to host critical systems and analytical data systems to help understand smart building technology to improve people’s health and performance.

IBM and Intel have partnered to improve public cloud security through hardware advancements and cognitive hardware insights.

IBM Watson Security is being fed millions of security documents via 8 universities each day to learn more and more to better the analytics engine.

With Watson for a Cyber Security it takes minutes to find a threat versus hours for an IT professional.

Everledger is able to do physical diamond tracking with blockchain on the IBM Cloud. They are expanding into art and other high value items. Beyond that, they are using a cognitive blockchain to analyze regulatory documents to comply with these rules. Obligations are pulled out directly by Watson and are linked into libraries to check for compliance against the blockchain.